The 2 fundamental aspects of dance are:
existing in shared space; and,
shared sensory-kinesthetic experience.
These don’t exist online.
How are you coping with the lack of shared space and shared sensory-kinesthetic experience?
Is it a generative space?
Please describe.
Is it a placeholder space (limbo work?)
For what?
Is the material developed mostly a skeleton-proposition-potential, waiting to be developed when physically together?
How?
online has been generative for me, i'm working more visually than ever before because that is the primary sense involved in watching a screen, as well as the kinaesthetic sense of reception of watching the work
if we are dancing together it is also visual but there is a kinaesthetic sense of being in relation to what i am seeing in the other person's screen.
these days i have been proposing and working on moving away from the visual in the shared online space, i am cultivating other sensations and going back to having other interests in developing work beyond the visual.
it's not a placeholder. it's a work in itself. e.g. i am working on vulnerability. how can i do that within the context of a dispersed audience, how can i work on that through my body and is it possible that the audience feels something of what i am working on that goes beyond the visual? can the visual relate the feeling in the video? i have a sense of how to create a feeling in a live in-the-room audience space. i am trying to develop my awareness of how to do that online by practicing online.